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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I haven’t degraded anyone. My focus is on the contradiction of using the language of liberation to justify the mechanics of control.
Lemmy has a lot of performative anarchy: putting on the badass sunglasses of a rebel only to act as a gatekeeper for a specific set of permitted thoughts. When someone claims to be an anarchist but their first instinct is to use centralized power to silence anyone who doesn't follow an ideological script, they haven't abolished authority, they've just claimed it for themselves.
True anarchy requires individual responsibility. It’s about the capacity for adults to navigate discourse through their own discernment, critical thinking and voluntary association rather than needing someone to pre-filter their reality. If a community can only exist by forcibly removing any voice that challenges the status quo, it isn't a functional anarchist space; it’s just a digital walled garden with a cool flag.
thank you. That goes for all the lefty subs. I'm deeply involved with the leftist movement in my country, on a direct political level (I was an elected official two terms back, and am running again this cycle), and the amount of narcissistic performative ego-bullshit and echo chamber group think on here is jarring to me. Free speech and free thought and discussion and exploration of ideas and back and forth is NOT allowed here, it's pure emotional outrage gatekeeping and censorship, and if you don't stay in line you will be mobbed and reported over instances to have you silenced. I feel sometimes like online leftist space is like MAGA only with different talking points.
That's not anarchy, that's being an asshole. You are generalizing an entire group based on the actions of one person.
Calling names doesn't change the structural reality I'm pointing out: that there are a lot of people using 'anarchy' as a mask for top-down, centralized authority.
I'm not attacking anarchism. I AM an anarchist who is tired of seeing it appropriated by authoritarians.
Then I think instead of saying "This type of people do this bad thing", maybe phrase it as "doing this goes against the values of the people you claim to be a part of".
They did. Why are you tone policing? You're doing exactly what they're saying is bad...
Cope
Lol I literally tagged you as a user who generalizes groups of people unfairly.